The Elk County Community Foundation (ECCF), an affiliate of Central Kansas Community Foundation (CKCF), has been working closely with local schools recently to find ways to better support staff and students in the district. After meeting with local administrators, it became clear that there was a great opportunity for ECCF to help address the needs of individual students at both West Elk and Elk Valley Schools.
School budgets typically do not allow for the purchase of need-based items such as winter coats, gym shoes, eyeglasses or other similar items for individual students. Because of this, local teachers frequently end up using their own money to purchase these types of items when a student in their class needs them. In response to this, the ECCF began working to set up funds to address these very important needs.
